antreegonist: Mithos: shadowed/determined/attack/symbolic/Eternal Sword (save not the queen.)
* Chaos and self-doubt. "I can't turn back now."

Won from Game 108: A balance of choices for Three of Three.

snip )

+ . . . :/.
+ Probably headache and especially short temper for a while after.
antreegonist: Mithos: symbolic/gesture/smile/complicated (miles away.)
* Pact with Ratatosk.

Earned from Game 102: Build-a-bird for Kiriko.

snip )

+ KIND OF REMEMBERS LOVING RATATOSK A LOT AT THIS POINT? GOD. It's something that comes with time and perspective, too; it's a lot easier for him to recognize the affection in the memory than it would have been for him at the time he was living the memory.
+ 500 more tsundere points for Ratatosk?!
+ 500 patience/"...♥" at tsundere types in general.
+ And then Emil and Mithos were also so much of a walking time bomb it wasn't even funny anymore. THANKS SYMPHONIA!
antreegonist: Mithos: huff/cranky (why are you still breathing?)
* LINKITE QUEST!

Earned from Knight Game 9: Sleepovers for Goldilocks.

snip. )

+ 100 REMEMBERED TSUN FOR RATATOSK.
+ 100 R-REMEMBERED DERE FOR RATATOSK.
+ 20 . . . throwing . . . things . . .?
+ 100 fetchquest patience and riddle logic.
+ 50 usual dose of sad regretful nostalgia.
+ 100 awareness his pact with Ratatosk was actually of a different -- and in some ways more intimate -- nature than his pacts with the other Summon Spirits (read: they spent a lot more time together getting on each other's nerves.)
+ 100 HILARITY WHEN THE EMIL-IS-RATATOSK REVEAL COMES.
antreegonist: Mithos: sad/denial/despair/tears (no rhyme or reason to be found.)
* "My name is Mithos. Mithos Yggdrasil." Meeting Kratos, pleading his case to the Tethe'allan court and failing.

Earned from Game 100: Cohabitation for Cheshire.

snip. )

+ This is one of the defining moments of Mithos's life being shitty as a kid, a massive pileup of rejection and racism and failure and the deaths of thousands of people he legitimately tried to save and felt responsible for. It happened well before he ever had any real power or tried saving/destroying the world and it very nearly shattered him back then.
+ This is also what shoved Mithos onto the 'let's be a lone hero doing things normal people would consider suicidally insane' path -- he was completely unable to make either of the warring countries listen to him, and he was weak, so he chose to gain so much power he could make both sides stop in their tracks and quit fighting.
+ The one bright spot in the memory is Kratos Aurion, and this is also the memory that best defines why he loved Kratos so much that it got twisted and obsessive later -- Kratos is legit the only human in that time period who ever believed in Mithos and looked past his race and gave him the chance to make something of himself.
+ Martel is a more steadying presence/voice of reason in this, and he also learns how conflicted their beginning relationship with Yuan was.
+ . . . gosh this is shareable :'D . . .
+ On the whole, though, it's all backstory memory, so he'll have a lot of feelings about it when he takes it but they should be mostly private and he will keep rolling.
antreegonist: Mithos: outcry/surprise/derp (I'm a toaster!)
* NO ONE LIKES YOU, MIMIC CHESTS!

Won from Game 98: Chariots for Green Knight and Narcissus.

Yeah this one's straightforward. Original party going through some dungeon, looting chests, and one happening to be a mimic monster! Narrowly defeating it but also getting royally beaten up in the process. :'D

+ He already knew mimics sucked, but WHATEVER NOW THEY SUCK MORE.
+ On a more positive note, the first memory he's received where his entire party fought together and covered each others' backs. Kind of cool!
antreegonist: Mithos: thoughtful/neutral/distant (men in monsters.)
* Illusions and mindfuck.

Earned from Skill Game 16: Ryner's heart.

+ This is a magic skill he has normally; it's boosted by his Exsphere, but doesn't stem directly from it.
+ Basic illusions are the standard 'make things look like other things' schtick, and are weaker than, say, Reborn-style illusions -- he can't craft a pony out of thin air and drop it on someone and break their shoulder! Bbbbut he can drop a real boulder on you to similar effect and make it look like a pony. Or make the edge of a cliff look farther away and make you walk off it. Or make Lloyd look like a giant spider. This is powercapped, small illusions cost less power than large ones, illusions that have to do with one sense cost less power than illusions that handle multiple senses, etc. Purely visual illusions are the easiest.
+ Mindfuck is both deeper and less user-determined; it's the ability to tell someone's brain to perceive stuff he doesn't actually know about. Like 'your greatest fear' or 'your greatest insecurity' or 'the person you love best complimenting you' or 'the person you hate most telling you that you're worthless.' The downsides are that he doesn't know what he'll get/what reactions these illusions will provoke, and sustaining them for about a minute gets him right into powercap sickness territory.
+ Both are breakable if you have sufficient willpower/awareness/etc. but the second is more difficult to break than the first.
+ He was already less susceptible to illusions because of sometimes being able to tell that the mana in them feels 'off,' but knowing what is actually up with them boosts that a bit.
antreegonist: Mithos: symbolic/party(Kratos/Martel/Yuan) (first movement.)
* Martel tops Yuan and that's adorable.

Won from Game 97: Charades for Dream.

Basically take this video and look at what happens around 00:30, 3:50, and 5:00. This memory is just a big montage of cute moments like that which Mithos was around for. None of it is actually new info, but. Origipartyyy.

+ Cute cute cuuuuuuuute. /)^o^(\
+ Except Martel is dead and Yuan will never forgive me, oh yeah. <( .____. )
+ Overall it is an enjoyable memory that will induce a lot of nostalgic fondness but also sads, which is pretty par for the course with all his triv positives now. Oh well, nothing to be done. He is pretty okay with this one not being shareable, though -- some moments are just private.
antreegonist: Mithos: neutral/dynamic/blank (ring of bright water.)
* First death.

Earned in Game 94: Music for the Unicorn.

welp )

+ ........................................
antreegonist: Mithos: magic/attack/other(Yuan) (no.)
* THOSE FUCKING SOUL GUNDAMS.

Won from Game 92: Feasts for Anansi.

In the final dungeon of Symphonia the party runs into three robot sub-bosses -- the Fugitive (fear, selfishness, cowardice); Judged (sins and the ability/inability to face them) and Neglected (internal bitterness and self-loathing). They are all representations of the pain in Mithos's heart! They have to kill these bosses in order to make taking on Mithos easier, because Mithos's very final boss form is . . . a fourth magic demon robot that is a combination of the first three. Yes.

This memory doesn't cover those confrontations, but rather his creation of the robots and the circumstances around it, probably a couple of thousand years prior to any of Lloyd's party even being born. That was probably a period of Mithos's life where he was starting to come out of the emotionlessness that accompanies the lifeless being state, and didn't want to because it was easier to keep not feeling feelings, particularly when the vast majority were super negative. His solution was to delay the return of emotions by literally booting the worst of them out of himself and crafting the robots so he didn't just have a back room full of emotions gunk somewhere.

(They still came back after, but that is another memory.)

+ SOME PEOPLE WRITE EMO POETRY, I MAKE EMO SOUL ROBOTS
+ In hindsight, that was kind of stupid; did he seriously have nothing better to do with his powers . . . ssssideeye . . .
+ The whole embarrassment aspect aside, this is an extremely unpleasant memory with some alarming implications about how he casually chucked out bits of his soul! It is also full of blatant self-directed hatred as well as hatred of others, which are things he tries super hard to shift away from in Aather. His general sentiment towards it is going to be 'llllet's move on now' and it will probably put him in a mood for a while after.
antreegonist: Mithos: derp/outcry/surprise/dynamic (he punched a whale right in the face!)
* And then Yuan got food poisoning.

Won from Game 91: Oregon Trail for Cheshire.

+ Yuan and Martel were in love and Mithos kinda shipped them in his mildly trolly little brother way.
+ Martel's cooking was terrifying.
+ One day she made him lunch and then he ate it in front of a horrified Kratos and Mithos despite knowing how terrible it was because yes.
+ FOOD POISONING ALL NIGHT. Poor Yuan.
+ This is something Mithos was there for/more information on past relationships etc. -- fleshing out how he felt about Yuan back in the day, mostly.
antreegonist: Mithos: shadowed/determined/attack/symbolic/Eternal Sword (save not the queen.)
* Swordfighting.

Won from Skill Game 14: Magical girls for the Green Knight.

Mithos uses a light, one-handed sword! It is probably an edged rapier or whatever they call that in Aselia.

That means he effectively has two weapon sets/styles in Aather. With the sword, he's been trained both formally by Kratos and in the RPG hero style (that is, kill lots of shit on the road until you are great at it), he's very good with it, but he's gone four months without it and it's not really a second-nature weapon anymore.

With dual knives, he has pretty much been trained from scratch by Lloyd and the Uchihas and worked out his own style (hilarity: the style there is ALSO the one taught by Kratos --> adapted for Lloyd's two swords --> adapted for Mithos's two knives and then with added ninja.) He is still learning and rough around the edges, but he's grown to prefer them as weapons and is comfortable with them.

But it's not like he wants to lose a useful regained skill either! Chances are he will train with both weapon types separately. There will be a long awkward period of working that out, until he's very very resettled into having both and using both and balancing them.

TL;DR Mithos has worn knives and been able to shank with them for a while; now he also wears a sword that he can shank with more efficiently; when he regains sword artes he'll also want to adapt them for the knife; you may see him train with either during the day; and now he legit seriously knows his way around a weapon. HOORAY!
antreegonist: Mithos: creation/magic/party(Martel) (émeraude.)
* Playing music for Luna and Aska.

Won from Game 89: Viola's heart.

Another headcanon memory. Luna represents the Moon and Aska represents the Sun; they are collectively the Summon Spirits of Light and come as a package deal. You have to make a pact with the both of them together! And while Luna may stay in one place, Aska roves unless he's called down by the music from a special kind of panpipe.

I'm figuring that they both liked the pipe music for its own sake, though, and they liked to sit back and chill while Mithos played for them sometimes -- probably at dusk or dawn hours when neither of them was in majority. It's a very quiet and peaceful sort of memory; bittersweet, like all his Summon Spirit memories are, but calming as well.

+ More of that charged sort of dere that comes with remembering the Summon Spirits as friends/people in little ways.
+ A rekindling of interest in music; he has panpipes from way back when and sort of learned how to play them, but for a while they were filed away as 'a thing Martel liked to do' rather than something he enjoyed doing for his own sake. So maybe sometimes he will play up on the clifftop, make up tunes, etc.
antreegonist: Mithos: symbolic/party(Kratos/Martel/Yuan) (first movement.)
* Ratatosk is tsundere take #23956: "You're actually really nice, aren't you?"

Won from Game 87: Plants for Three of Three.

+ AFTER DISCUSSION WITH [personal profile] squirreledaway this involves Ratatosk cockblocking the party from going after a monster and being like >( IT'S JUST A BABY DON'T ATTACK IT IT'S SCARED YOU ASSHOLES at the party...c-cute...
+ idk little headcanon skit RATATOSK TSUNS AND IS CRANKY AND MISTRUSTFUL AT MITHOS'S PARTY and then he does something really cute and the Yggdrasil siblings call him on it and then he TSUNS SOME MORE IN RESPONSE OH NO!
+ confirmation that he was for sure pacted to Ratatosk once! Though he hasn't yet received the memory of that yet, or the nature of his own pact, which is why he is a bit (unsure) about Emil's and its split personality effect.
+ bittersweetness -- Ratatosk is confirmed alive and he and Mithos will move on somehow, but their previous relationship can't ever be reclaimed. He feels this for every Summon Spirit but Ratatosk was definitely one he was very close to/most invested in, because of course an integral part of saving the world was saving Ratatosk's tree.
+
antreegonist: (what angels dream about.)
* Inventory!

Won from skill game 13: Secrets for Madame White.

+ SEE LLOYD'S WRITEUP.
+ I'll be keeping a log of general inventory contents + accessibility stickied.
+ Who needs text messaging when you can pass notes through shared inventory.

Fuck yes.
antreegonist: Mithos: malice/injury/laugh (hey baby; wanna kill all humans?)
* Kratos fleeing Cruxis with Anna.

Won in Game 85: Noble roles for Mother.

haha oh god. )

+ Ssssso he killed Lloyd's mom and took back Lloyd's dad for completely selfish reasons, that happened. That happened.
+ Realization that Cruxis and the Desians are one and the same; that he is also responsible for the torture camps and human subjugation by half-elves -- that is, thousands of years of systemized torture and killing to produce Exspheres.
+ Knowledge of the Angelus Project's nature, though that won't ever be directly addressed onscreen because canon is super vague about it and Mithos probably wouldn't even have been that interested if Kratos weren't involved.
+ Knowledge of what Lloyd's mom looks like :'D They never met directly but I'm pretty sure Mithos saw a picture of her to snarl at or something.
+ Knowledge of the 'stone cold asshole who enjoys casually causing other people pain' side of his insanity, which he vaguely knew about but never had to confront so overtly in his memories before.
antreegonist: Mithos: symbolic/destroyed Exsphere (Default)
* Magic play--sculpting with wind, engraving with fire.

Won in Game 83: Swans for Odile.

+ It is exactly what it sounds like! Playing around during origiparty's downtime, using his magic to do derpy creative things with wood and paper and soil and sand instead of fighting/specifically spellcasting. Probably got scolded a bit ("Just because you have a lot of power doesn't mean you don't need it all! Don't be frivolous with it!" "Yuaaaaan I'll take an orange gel when I'm done, lighten up!")
+ He has the skill for this, so he's already been toying with it mostly offscreen! It just gives him a few more ideas and more of an inclination to mess around once in awhile. Stuff like building sandcastles with the air and drawing with fire etc. etc. etc. He loves crafts anyway, it is not a stretch to apply touches of magic there since he can.
+ This is hindered because he is obviously super capped in Aather, though, and has to be careful about using what he does have anyway (there's dawn/dusk, and if there's a surprise deathgame he needs all the strength he has to revive), so. While he does do it in public it is usually nothing very big/sustained, and normally no more than once a day or so.
antreegonist: Mithos: shock/dynamic (over and over.)
* Impulsively saving Tabatha from falling rocks.

Earned from Game 81: Letters for Kiriko.

Manga version page 1, page 2; the game and manga versions are pretty much the same.

brief script snip )

+ ow rocks hurt when they hit you.
+ remembered siscon points.
+ something was wrong --
+ a bit more protectiveness toward people who resemble Martel (so, hi CC.)
+ a reminder that he hated Tabatha because she was a robot doll who failed to contain his sister's soul (he already has the memory of breaking her later and ranting about that . . .)
antreegonist: Mithos: happy/gesture/party(Martel) (just keep on trying.)
* Enchanting Yuan's lunch to look like eggs over rice.

Earned from Game 78: PARPY for Goldie and Maleficent.

image under cut! )

+ 5 trollstreak
+ 10 origiparty affection
+ knowledge that illusions are part of his skillset
+ I THINK THAT'S IT it's just a cute positive memory but without a lot of new content.

[SKILL # 9]

Nov. 4th, 2011 02:12 pm
antreegonist: Mithos: angel/attack/other(Lloyd) (+ careless from the sea.)
* Angel: Wings, flight, levitation.

Earned in Skill Game 11: Tokens for Three of Three.

+ WINGS OF LIGHT they are pretty. He can also hover without calling his wings if he wants, though hovering will only take him a little way off the ground.

+ They are magical and thus a slow MP drain the longer he has them out! Wings and flight drain him faster than hovering does. He has rrroughly five to six hours of flight max in him per day if he doesn't need to do any other magic--except chances are he will.

+ Taking this skill changes his body to an angel body on top of being inorganic :'D ... it probably just pings as even further on the inhuman scale with a taste of light-elemental alignment! And his soul getting even more complicatedly tangled up with his Exsphere. He is now also weak to Dark magic in the manner of Pokemon.

+ Oh no sitting on everybody's roof oh no cliffdiving oh no DUMB BOY STUNTS. Until he gets the memories that make him sad to have the angel skillset too, I guess.
antreegonist: Mithos: asleep/derp/party(Martel/Kratos/Noishe) (I'll meet you there.)
* "I think what I'm doing may be wrong. And now that I've started to think that, I can't help but feel there's no meaning to life."

Won in the final push to free the Forest region from the darkness.

THAT'S DEFINITELY A DOG! )

+ A-AFFECTION FOR NOISHE
+ Impressions of Noishe being an old (old, old) friend! Definite conviction that Noishe can understand him! Noishe used to be party. 8(
+ Knowledge of the Protozoan legend. Lloyd your dog is even more magical than we suspected, sigh.
+ remembered definite tsundere for Lloyd Irving.
+ I had an existential crisis . . .
+ I had an existential crisis . . . all over Lloyd's dog . . .
+ FLOPPING ON ADMIRAL RIBBARK
+ TALKING TO CUTE ANIMALS -- wait he does that already.
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